Carlos Garcia

Indie Developer / Pipeline Developer for VFX
Trying to reach ramen profitability with my iOS apps.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

Walk With Jesus has arrived in the app store! What a wonderful day to reflect and begin your journey with Jesus.
https://t.co/CpxSZw0ZtL

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

@caguilar51 As long as I can answer them, I have no problem. 🙂

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

@hinrichbo @adamlyttleapps Translating the Bible into modern English without changing the meaning takes scholars and theologians, and they have to get paid. That's why some versions (NIV, ESV, etc.) are copyrighted and need licensing for commercial use.

[Paul Hudson @twostraws]

Can I make one YouTube video showing all the features in Kickstart? No! But I can certainly try to show off my favorites 😎 https://t.co/uYjkcLLvNz

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

@juanjovn Congrats! I hope I will get there too. 🙂... Thank you for showing us that it is possible.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

@sama I will love to be there :)

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

AI is a tool, not a replacement for your brain. I'd rather think for myself than ship AI slop. Even SOTA models still hallucinate and make awful architectural decisions. Don't outsource your judgment. Plus, I never hit my quota.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

One of the hardest parts of going indie is juggling work, marketing, new features, new apps, and family. But the real challenge? Doing it all well without burning out.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

I am tired of the fear-based AI clickbait: "You're not using AI right." "Why you NEED this AI now." It's just manufactured anxiety. AI is here to stay, but not chasing every new model doesn't mean you're being left behind.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

Getting the first reviews for my new journal app feels so good. :)
Try it out: https://t.co/CpxSZw0ZtL
#JournalApp #Journaling #WWJ

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

Ripped out my old timer code and moved UV Buddy over to AlarmKit. Live Activity finally behaves the way I always wanted it to. The change was worth it.
#buildinpublic #iOSDev

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

Mondays are like a fresh start with another opportunity to achieve great things!

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

@ios_dev_alb Focus on design patterns and system architecture; AI will always be terrible in those aspects, as it will just default to whatever it is trained on, not what the actual project needs.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

If you're building something unfamiliar and actually doing the work yourself, feeling stuck at the start is normal. That's not confusion. That's learning, right before it clicks.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

If even one person opened your app this week and it helped them in some small way, you did it!. You don't need a press release for that. Just the knowledge that your app reached someone. That's the whole point of indie apps.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

@JacobSobolev How the whole approach to talking to OpenRouter. I had to change the system prompt approach to be set in the proxy as well just to have more control over which models to use. Which then changed how the call was made. Not a huge headache, just changes in the architecture.

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

"Just proxy the API keys, should be quick." Three hours later, I have opinions about backend architecture now. #indiedev #buildinpublic

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

If you're solo building something nights and weekends, those commits add up. Week after week, ticket after ticket. One day you'll flip a Jira status from "Coming Soon" to "Available" and it will actually hit different. #indiedev

[Carlos Garcia @felo44]

Walk With Jesus has arrived in the app store! What a wonderful day to reflect and begin your journey with Jesus.
https://t.co/CpxSZw0ZtL